Jazz Articles about Sam Leak

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Album Review

Hannah Horton: Stories On The Wind

Read "Stories On The Wind" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 27, 2026

Saxophonist Hannah Horton is a rising star on the U.K. jazz scene, for many good reasons. For Stories on the Wind, her third studio recording, Horton has written a series of eloquent and picturesque narratives, all of which she plays with an abundance of warmth and charm on tenor or baritone sax. Much of Horton's music springs from her life experiences: a memory here, an emotion there, loneliness and hope, desire and despair-- the building blocks of a ...

Album Review

Sam Leak and Dan Tepfer: Adrift

by Roger Farbey
November 14, 2018

Adrift is an unusual recording featuring two pianos in an original work by Sam Leak. It's hard to neatly categorise since it presumably draws its influences from a variety of sources. It could be described as neo-classical, minimalist or chamber jazz but is most probably a mixture of all these elements since it assiduously resists any generic definition. Leak might have been influenced by a whole swathe of composers; the ghosts of Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, Duke Ellington and perhaps ...